Latest updates from one of the most anticipated races of 2023: Pat Vellner, Brent Fikowski & Jeff Adler Team Up To Take On Wodapalooza 2023. What's even more impressive is that Vellner and Fikowski will also compete individually in the same competition.
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What is Wodapalooza 2023?
Wopalooza 2023 is the off-season CrossFit® competition that kicks off the year. In Miami, athletes will go head-to-head in the elite division and team division.
New this year? Wodapalooza divided the competition days into individuals and teams.
Dates of Wodapalooza 2023
Individual elite: 12-13 January 2023 (Thursday and Friday)
Elite team: January 14-15 (Saturday and Sunday)
This new format allows athletes to compete individually, but also in teams, if they wish.
And that's exactly what we'll see Vellner and Fikowski do.
Italian athletes in the race? Of course!
For the category elite female we have Valentina Magalotti e Elisa Fuliano. In the male side, our monster, Henry Zenoni!
For the category women's elite team:
- Team Moods meets Shipyards (Francesca Marchiori, Lucia Borziani and Francesca Canobbio) and…surprise surprise: we will see Fulix competing in this category too;
- Team Med Girls Elisa Fuliani, Antea Longo and Elena Carratalá.
Instead in the men's elite team category we will see:
- Team Road To Asgard composed by Emanuele Biviano, Edoardo Talon, Andrea Ferrero
- Team Al, John & Jack made up of Pietro Anderloni, Tommaso Pieri, Stefano Migliorini
- Italian Team composed by Michele la Mura, Giuseppe Castiglione and Gabriele Ruggirello
For the Intermediate Woman category: Team QuadZilla (Martina di Biase, Elisabetta Marchesini and Laura di Biase)
For the Master Men 35 -39 category: Alexander Serrani e Emanuele Caloisi
For the Master Men 40-44 category: Joseph Girelli
For the Master Men 45-49 category: Andrew di Salvatore
For the Master Men 50-54 category: Julius Silvino
For the Master Men 55-59 category: Antonio Boldrini
For the Men 60+ category: Gerard Schiatti
For the Master Women 40-44 category: Cristina F. Andries
For the Master Women 45-49 category: Marina Novelli
For the Adaptive Standing Neuro Women category: Alice Honeycombs
For the 13-15 boys team category: Lorenzo Pitruzello
Pat Vellner, Brent Fikowski and Jeff Adler team up for Wodapalooza 2023
Over the weekend Wodapalooza's official Instagram account has shared the news that Canadian elite individual athletes Vellner, Fikowski and Adler will team up for next year's competition.
At the moment we still don't know what name the team of Canadian stars will choose. So far, the only athlete to talk about this collaboration has been Pat Vellner. On his Instagram profile he wrote:
“In January, a couple of Canadian guys are heading south to make your wildest dreams come true. Unless you're another team of elite men… you may not find these Canadians too nice.”
According to the organizers of Wodapalooza, Pat Vellner and Brent Fikowski will also compete in the individual category on the first two days of competition, thus making the whole event weekend pretty full for these athletes.
Last year Patrick Vellner secured the title once again at Wodapalooza (won the last 3 times). For the elite women, victory went to Emma McQuaid.
The teams The Boys (Chandler Smith, Noah Ohlsen and Travis Meyer) e Team Kriger (Kristin Holte, Lena Richter, Ingrid Hodnemyr) won their respective categories.